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1. by the way ...
2. Conferences, CfPs and Symposiums
3. Recent publications and Discussion Papers
4. Job opportunities and Doctoral Schools
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1. by the way ...
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From Luke Rendell, St. Andrews University, U.K.:  Social Learning Strategies Tournament

Dear social simulators,
We have received funding from the European Commission to organize a  major international multi-disciplinary tournament on the evolution of social learning, inspired by Robert Axelrod's famous Prisoner's  Dilemma tournaments on the evolution of cooperation.
The competition is now running, and has a closing date of June 30 2008 and active website: http://www.intercult.su.se/cultaptation/tournament.php
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Semantic Web Takes a Big Step Forward - InfoWorld (01/15/08) Krill, Paul
"The World Wide Web Consortium's Tuesday announcement of the publication of SPARQL query technology will be an important step forward for the Semantic Web." URL: http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/15/sparql-semantic-web_1.html
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2. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
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CfP:Reputation in the Trust Agent Societies, workshop to to be held at Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems Conference (AAMAS 2008)
May 12 and 13 (One and Half Day), 2008, Estoril, Portugal
For more information visit: http://www.istc.cnr.it/T3/events/aamas/trust2008.html
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CfP: Agent-based Models of Labor Markets and Innovation at the annual meeting of the Society for Computational Economics, Paris, 26-28 June
For more information visit: http://www.cepremap.cnrs.fr/cef2008.
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CfP: 2nd World Congress on Social Simulation (WCSS-2008), George Mason University, Fairfax - July 14-17, 2008
For more information visit: http://mann.clermont.cemagref.fr/wcss/
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CfP: International Conference on Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents 2008, 19-21 June, 2008, Warsaw, Poland
For more information visit: http://www.if.pw.edu.pl/~eshia08/
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CfP: ALife XI (www.alifexi.org) theme: 'Evolution of Personality'
Deadline for submitting a full paper or talk abstract are 29th February and 25th April respectively.
Contact: James Marshall, University of Bristol http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~marshall
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CfP:  Sessions on Asset Markets and the Macroeconomy in Economics and Finance, Paris, France, June 26-28, 2008
For more information visit: http://www.cepremap.cnrs.fr/cef2008/
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The 2008 multi-conference (MULTICONF 2008) in computer science, information technology, computer engineering, control and automation technology will be held during July 7-10 2008 in Orlando, FL, USA
For more information visit: http://www.promoteresearch.org/
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3. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Presentations
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Leonidas Spiliopoulos, Humans versus computer algorithms in repeated mixed strategy games, 2008-01-09,
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:6672&r=cbe
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December issue of Advances in Complex Systems (ACS), Volume:  10, Issue: 2 supp (December 2007) available online
URL: javascript:tocsubmit('10','2 supp ','December 2007')
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'The Coevolution Of Choosiness And Cooperation' by John M. McNamara, Zoltan Barta, Lutz Fromhage, Alasdair I. Houston, DOI: 10.1038/nature06455, Nature 451, 189-192, 08/01/10
URL: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7175/full/nature06455.html (from Complexity Digest)
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'Achieving Consensus Among Agents - an opinion-dynamics model' by Bruce Edmonds, Centre for Policy Modelling Report No. 08-185, MMU.
URL: http://cfpm.org/cpmrep185.html
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'Solving the Riddle of Language Acquisition: How to Design a Virtual Infant (MLAS)' by Tetsuo Suga, Japan Women's University
URL: http://www10.ocn.ne.jp/~mlas/JSLS_Paper.htm
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Jean Bonnet, Thomas Brau, Pascal Cussy, The entrepreneurial decision-making : a complex choice where taste, risk, endowments, necessity, opportunity, personals traits and behaviour matter, 2008
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:tut:cremwp:200801&r=cbe
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4. Job opportunities and Summer/Doctoral Schools
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Post-doc position in Groningen.
"In Groningen we start a 3-year project on the development of an agent based model of consumer behaviour, specifically targeting consumptive behaviour of agricultural products. We are looking for a candidate with experience in agent-based modelling and a proven interest in consumer behaviour and marketing.
Interested? Contact Wander Jager: w.jager@rug.nl, phone +31 50 363 4007"
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The Department of New Media Technology of MODUL University Vienna is seeking two outstanding candidates for joining the faculty as Assistant Professors of New Media Technology.
For more information visit: http://www.modul.ac.at/nmt/assistant-professor
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Two post-doctoral jobs are open at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense working on biologically based robotics.  Closing date for applications is 28 January 2008.
For more information visit: http://www.jobs.sdu.dk/vis_stilling.php?id=3968&lang=eng
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Postdoc Positions at University of Michigan:
Two Post-Doctoral positions are available to develop complex system models that will advance the science of infection transmission. One is in the Center for Advancing Microbial Risk Assessment is available to work with Drs. James Koopman and Joseph Eisenberg in the area of infection spread through populations via environmental intermediates. A second
position will build on recent advances in understanding HIV transmission. Agent based models will be used to analyze the transmission system using data on HIV genetic sequences from infected individuals. Ideally some familiarity with phylogenetic analysis as well as complex system modeling is desired for this position.
For more information contact: Dr. James Koopman at jkoopman@umich.edu
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PhD Position: Human-Agent Collaboration for Distributed Sensemaking and Action, at the Knowledge Media Institute, Open University UK, and the Brahms agent-based Work Systems Simulation activity in Human-Centered Computing at NASA Ames Research Center.
For more information visit: Full details: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/studentships/studentship7.cfm
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Complex Systems and Social Simulations, CEU Summer University in Budapest, July 7 - 18, 2008
Application deadline for scholarship applications: 14 February, 2008 - Application deadline for fee-paying applications: 30 May, 2008
For more information visit: http://www.sun.ceu.hu/complex-systems/
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Fourth SIENA (Simulation Investigation for Empirical Network Analysis) Workshop - March 31 - April 3, 2008. Groningen, The Netherlands.
For more information visit: http://www.gmw.rug.nl/~steglich/dynamics/workshop/
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Global Sensitivity Analysis for Macroeconomic Models - Course, Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Ispra (Italy), April 21-22, 2008
The scope of the course is to give an introduction to methods of global sensitivity analysis and their application to Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) macroeconomic models.
For more information visit: http://eemc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/events3.htm
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